Foreign bodies in the air passages / By J. Mason Warren.
- Jonathan Mason Warren
- Date:
- [1847?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Foreign bodies in the air passages / By J. Mason Warren. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.
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![FOREIGN BODIES IN THE AIR PASSAGES. BY J. MASON WARREN, M. D. Trom the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. The introduction of a foreign body into the larynx, or trachea is an accident generally attended with much terror and distress at the time, a often followed by symptoms of an alarming, and sometimes ’ character. Th/occurrence of this accident is rendered more frequen , both by the heedlessness of children, and the foolish habit >nd«lged by many grown persons of keeping pins, nails, and other like bodies, ,D A Question' arises in the mind of the surgeon called to an insttnce of this kind as to the propriety of opening the windpipe, and attempt ng the extraclion°of the foreij bod/without delay. 1 the na.ute of the symptoms be urgent, and immediate suffocation is thrslatenedthereMS no alternative but to proceed at once to the operation. But if violent paroxysm, which at first threatened life has subsided, and the substance has settled into one of the bronchial tubes, causing only^occa- sional disturbance, or if as in children some doubt rests on the account of the accident, the question becomes one of more difficult solution. One or two remarkable operations of late years have called the at- tention of the medical public to this subject, but as yet no definite rule of action has been laid down. With the purpose of assisting in this ob- ject, the following cases are now given to the profession. I. Foreign Body in the Left Bronchus. On Tuesday evening, October 13th, I was called to see a little girl 8 years old, a child of Mr. Morse, of Southbridge, who had just been brought to Boston by its parents. The same morning, while in the act o°f laughing, a common garden bean, which she had in her mouth, was drawn into the trachea. She was at first nearly suffocated. Gra- dually, however, the cough and struggles became less violent; and dur- ing a ride of four or five miles, almost entire tranquillity in the respiration was restored. In the course of an hour or two the difficulty of breat 1- ]n„ returned, and finally became so laborious, that the parents being alarmed determined to bring her immediately to Boston, accompanied by her physician, Dr. Fay.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21307738_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
